RE: Remote Administration on W2K

From: Carlos Lyons (clyons@microsoft.com)
Date: 07/30/01 

Subject: RE: Remote Administration on W2K
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:44:16 -0700
Message-ID: <7C35577CCDA37E41B7D17768920664280293097C@red-msg-02.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
From: "Carlos Lyons" <clyons@microsoft.com>
To: "Tom Geldner" <tom@xor.cc>, "Brian McClory" <security_resources@hotmail.com>, <SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com>

VNC is a very insecure tool and easily compromised.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Geldner [mailto:tom@xor.cc]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 1:26 PM
To: 'Brian McClory'; SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Remote Administration on W2K

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Brian McClory [mailto:security_resources@hotmail.com]

: I would look into VNC by AT&T Labs. It seems to be very
: light weight, and most importantly has completely
: customizable ports, very important if you will be accessing
: through a firewall, and also adds a little security through
: obscurity. Also, VNC is open source under the typical GNU
: License and all the source is provided.

I use VNC as well. Seems to work just fine for most things.

Tom

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